Thiruvananthapuram, Dec. 12 -- India's inter-planetary missions have a crucial role, not just for the country but for the entire world, as it gives the rest of the world a voice in the future of space exploration, said Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair, Indian astronaut and test pilot, while addressing the audience at the Huddle Global 2025 at Kovalam on Friday.
Nair said the rest of the world will look up to India to represent them when space powers rewrite the rules for outer space as plans for colonisation of space gains momentum.
Speaking on the subject of 'Astronaut Mindset Towards Nation Building', he pointed out that Indians already contribute about 30 per cent of the work in the sector, as most leading space research centres like NASA em...